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Our Bollywood spies bring you the latest on industry gossip and celebrity tidbits
Raees underperforming protecting dogs
at the box offi ce and Jab from fi reworks
Harry Met Sejal being to advocating
a straight-up disaster, for horses that
2017 hadn’t been his are forced to
year. However, Virat, pull carriages in
the captain of India’s Mumbai, got her
national cricket team acknowledged and
and the newly-wedded husband of Anushka Sharma, named as PETA’s
experienced an annual brand growth of 56 percent, 2017 Person of the
currently amounting to $144 million. On the other Year. She was also named PETA’s Hottest Vegetarian
hand, Shah Rukh amounted to $106 million, which is Celebrity in 2015. She continues to support her cause by
nearly 20 percent less compared to 2016. launching her own cruelty-free NUSH clothing line.
SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT REJECTS A PADMAAVAT BANNED IN RAJASTHAN PLAYING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM IN
FAIRNESS CREAM ENDORSEMENT DEAL
AND GUJARAT CINEMA HALLS IS NOT MANDATORY
Fair skin is synonymous with beauty in our Indian The controversy
society, and while Bollywood continues to glorify
white skin, people are fi nally beginning to call surrounding Padmaavat
is never-ending. With
them out on it. Joining the battle against such countless death threats
social discrimination is Sushant Singh Rajput. and protests that even
Despite being off ered 15 crore rupees, the actor led to the movie’s name
refused to get behind the “might of white”. A close change, the period piece
source confi rmed that, “Sushant doesn’t believe by Sanjay Leela Bhansali,
in endorsing such products. So despite it being a is rumoured to have also
lucrative off er, he immediately turned it down. He suff ered through 300
feels that he needs to be responsible about the kind cuts at the hands of the A year ago, the apex court had decided that all
of products he lends his face to, as several people censor board. Despite this, the movie’s release has still cinema halls must play the national anthem before
look up to him.”
been banned in Rajasthan and Gujarat, without any the screening of fi lms, saying, “it would instil the
confi rmed reason. feeling within one a sense [of] committed patriotism
SRK REPLACED BY VIRAT KOHLI AS THE and nationalism”. However, this enforced patriotism
MOST VALUABLE CELEBRITY BRAND ANUSHKA SHARMA NAMED AS PETA’S didn’t sit well with many people, as it led to an uproar.
PERSON OF THE YEAR The public felt that it went against the very grain of
King Khan has been dethroned as the “most valuable freedom of expression. As a result, the Supreme Court
celebrity brand” by Virat Kohli. The 52-year-old actor’s Anushka Sharma has gone out of her way to support has now revoked its order on the mandatory playing of
last two releases were not so loved by the public. With animal welfare and rescue. Her work, ranging from the national anthem.

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